Outdoor Advertising Act
California · BPC · §§ 5200 to 5231 · 37 sections
Overview
The act governs outdoor advertising — signs, displays, and similar structures — erected along or in view of public highways, barring such advertising within a defined proximity to the roadway except in enumerated cases and prescribing standards that permitted advertising must satisfy. It operates chiefly through a permit system administered by a state transportation authority: permits and identification tags for advertising structures, application requirements and fees, treatment of structures already standing when the law took effect, rulemaking authority for the agency, agreements with the responsible federal official fixing advertising specifications, and compensation where outdoor advertising rights are acquired. Enforcement rests on inspection authority, notice of unlawful advertising followed by remedial action, treatment of nonconforming advertising as a nuisance, and criminal liability as a misdemeanor, while stricter regulation from other sources is left undisturbed and the act's restrictions may be relaxed if the underlying federal requirements change.
Editorial summary generated from the text of this act. It is not part of the statute — read the sections below for the operative language.
In the courts
Sections of this act have been cited in 5 court decisions.
Most-cited authority: 103 Cal. App. 4th 364 - Pacific Gas & Electric Co. v. City of Oakland
Sections covered
- Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 5200General Provisions
- Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 5201General Provisions
- Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 5202General Provisions
- Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 5203General Provisions1 cite
- Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 5204General Provisions
- Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 5205General Provisions
- Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 5206General Provisions
- Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 5208General Provisions
- Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 5208.6General Provisions
- Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 5209General Provisions
- Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 5210General Provisions
- Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 5211General Provisions
- Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 5212General Provisions
- Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 5213General Provisions
- Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 5214General Provisions
- Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 5215General Provisions
- Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 5216General Provisions
- Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 5216.1General Provisions1 cite
- Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 5216.3General Provisions
- Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 5216.4General Provisions
- Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 5216.5General Provisions1 cite
- Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 5216.6General Provisions
- Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 5218General Provisions
- Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 5219General Provisions1 cite
- Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 5220General Provisions
- Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 5221General Provisions
- Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 5222General Provisions
- Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 5222.1General Provisions
- Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 5223General Provisions
- Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 5224General Provisions
- Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 5225General Provisions
- Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 5226General Provisions
- Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 5227General Provisions
- Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 5228General Provisions
- Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 5229General Provisions
- Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 5230General Provisions1 cite
- Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 5231General Provisions
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